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TORN
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Posted: Mon 08 Aug , 2005 8:36 pm
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Anthriel wrote:
If I didn't know that the lot of you were such MAJOR English grammar geeks, I wouldn't have to go back and edit when I have overused certain words in a paragraph or gotten too wordy with qualifiers, or other such grammatical embarrassments.
and then Primmy wrote:
What, Anth, you mean people like me make it hard for you to RELAX???!!!????? [I should note, by-the-by, Primmy's stea. . . I mean, borrowing of my patented underline+red+large+bold formatting]
Yes, Anth, relax . . . as you know, my posts tend to go on and on, failing all known rules of language parsing, circling round and round several different diffuse points and generally only tangentially touching on what it is that I, the Great and Powerful TORN, wish to convey to you, the adoring masses on this sad and pathetic excuse of a messageboard -- not to say that I view any one of you individually as sad and pathetic, or as sad or pathetic, or as sad and/or pathetic in turn, or in fact neither sad nor pathetic -- or, for that matter, not necessarily even that I view any collection of individuals -- in whatever multiple you may wish to posit -- as constituting an organic entity having traits of sadness or patheticism -- no, it is solely the collective whole that brings together all necessarily elements to constitute a truly sad and pathetic messageboard -- well, as I was saying, I ... ah ... well I mean ... hmmm ... yeah ... in any event, Primmy still deigned it appropriate to bestow upon me the honorific title of "Poltroo" . . . so there's still hope for you, my dear Anth.

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sadness or patheticism

[cough] sadness or pathos

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Jenny-in-the-USA wrote:
sadness or patheticism

[cough] sadness or pathos
SEE!!!???!!!???!!!??? MY POINT EXACTLY!!!

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Jenny-in-the-USA wrote:
sadness or patheticism

[cough] sadness or pathos
I should add (but not edit in, of course, as that would threaten to loosen the ties that bind the universe together) that a whirl of "patheticism" through Google certainly makes clear that it is a truly poltroonific word choice if there ever was one.

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TORN wrote:
Yes, Anth, relax . . . as you know, my posts tend to go on and on, failing all known rules of language parsing, circling round and round several different diffuse points and generally only tangentially touching on what it is that I, the Great and Powerful TORN, wish to convey to you, the adoring masses on this sad and pathetic excuse of a messageboard -- not to say that I view any one of you individually as sad and pathetic, or as sad or pathetic, or as sad and/or pathetic in turn, or in fact neither sad nor pathetic -- or, for that matter, not necessarily even that I view any collection of individuals -- in whatever multiple you may wish to posit -- as constituting an organic entity having traits of sadness or patheticism -- no, it is solely the collective whole that brings together all necessarily elements to constitute a truly sad and pathetic messageboard -- well, as I was saying, I ... ah ... well I mean ... hmmm ... yeah ... in any event, Primmy still deigned it appropriate to bestow upon me the honorific title of "Poltroo" . . . so there's still hope for you, my dear Anth.

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Fixer wrote:
TORN wrote:
Yes, Anth, relax . . . as you know, my posts tend to go on and on, failing all known rules of language parsing, circling round and round several different diffuse points and generally only tangentially touching on what it is that I, the Great and Powerful TORN, wish to convey to you, the adoring masses on this sad and pathetic excuse of a messageboard -- not to say that I view any one of you individually as sad and pathetic, or as sad or pathetic, or as sad and/or pathetic in turn, or in fact neither sad nor pathetic -- or, for that matter, not necessarily even that I view any collection of individuals -- in whatever multiple you may wish to posit -- as constituting an organic entity having traits of sadness or patheticism -- no, it is solely the collective whole that brings together all necessarily elements to constitute a truly sad and pathetic messageboard -- well, as I was saying, I ... ah ... well I mean ... hmmm ... yeah ... in any event, Primmy still deigned it appropriate to bestow upon me the honorific title of "Poltroo" . . . so there's still hope for you, my dear Anth.

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You are a lawyer by trade, aren't you?
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Res ipsa loquitur.

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Gesundheit.

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a whirl of "patheticism" through Google certainly makes clear that it is a truly poltroonific word choice if there ever was one.

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Must be one of those ethnic coinages, enriching our language by working long hours for low wages. ;)

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Axordil wrote:
Hobby--
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I post, and find that someone has posted while I was typing, so I want to add something with reference to the new input.
See, I actually find that confusing. Even when I do it. :)
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Making separate posts to answer different people, that's spamming, I think.
Really this is a matter of taste. It's no better nor worse than a huge omnibus post that answers everyone, IMO. Sometimes I do one, sometimes the other.
Well, for me it depends on how complex a post is, and whether I think a point will be overlooked when it's part of another post.
But sometimes people seem to habitually add afterthoughts as new posts, and that makes me want to remind them we have an edit-button... :rage:
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I do think we should perhaps bear in mind that English is not the first language of everyone here...
Not sure what that has to do with it.

I think the problem with longer posts is people's willingness to concentrate on them.
I've not yet found differences in that with respect to native language.
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Voronwe, what is to prevent people from editing their own posts in a Jury Room deliberation, not just to rewrite history, as it were, but destroy evidence?
As I said earlier (and it was in a post all of its own! :P ;) ), you get the line saying a post was edited, so you even in the unlikely case someone wanted to destroy evidence (and, like someone else said, I don't think we should limit people's liberties to prevent things someone might want to do some day or not) - but in this unlikely case there'd be a treacherous mark left behind. ;)

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hobby:

There is a limit to how draconian we should be if someone who was a non-English native speaker wanted to edit something that was clearly the result of a translation or other linguisitic error, that's what I meant.


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